Post by Gunter Severloh on Feb 6, 2021 23:50:45 GMT -6
Here it is what i can tell you...there was politics between the companies behind the game, Awar (developers) who built the content of the game, BI (Devs of Arma3) who licensed the engine, and Deepsilver (published the game), well story goes Awar left as in quit at the end of 2012 because they were only getting paid 50% for their work Idk really but what i heard.
Deepsilver wasn't giving the royalties earned to BI for allowing DP to use the engine, so the game got stopped in terms of patches ect,.
The investors for the game stopped funding too.So after Awar Left they moved onto a new project.
2013 came around and I formed a 20 man team here (former IF Fan Forums) on the forums which was also established by TayUk because the
official forums went down for 2 weeks.
My team was working on a massive project to convert Iron front to a mod for Arma2CO, apparently kju had already been
doing that in late 2012 on the official forums in secret with permissions from the companies, well my team ended up working
with him and we did alot of testing and some builds, most work was done by Kju.
My team known as IFR aka Iron front revival built several addons,modules and a mission for the community you can see our work here:
ironfront.forumchitchat.com/post/ifriron-front-revival-mod-projects-6253251?&trail=15
During 2013 Deepsilver had given Kju access to source files for the latest patch that Awar was working on but didn't
finish before they left, the patch was v1.06
you can see the release thread for the patch here that we finished and what was done:
ironfront.forumchitchat.com/post/conversionpatch-1-06-promotion-screenshots-6586844?pid=1280915659#post1280915659
the patch was meant for the vanilla game but we changed it so it ended up being for the Arma2CO conversion.
So lots of work, and waiting, and end of December our work was released, earlier this year the Arma3 version of the Iron front was ready.
Quick rundown
1. Companies took a quit.
2. We got permissions to convert the game to a mod for Arma2CO and then eventually Arma3 which is still
being updated and patched by Kju and team 
3. IFR team released its mods seen on the one thread I linked.
4. A tool was created by one of my IFR team member that enabled you to convert your vanilla game to a mod for
Arma2CO, which then allowed you to play it in Arma3 with other files that were created.
5. If your interested in playing Iron front as a mod in Arma2CO then review this section ironfront.forumchitchat.com/?forum=382477
Interested in the Arma3 mod version of Iron front then review this section ironfront.forumchitchat.com/?forum=382476
Note: just look through the forum sections and look at the subjects, any questions send me a pm since I am moderator/admin here
Tayuk is admin and owner of the forum it was his initiative that brought the Iron front community back together.
6. Aside this a Mission Repository was built for the community in October 2012 seen here
by me considering the community had no were else to turn for missions other then 100 misc posts of undependable
download sources for missions from the community on the official forums,
so I turned this clusterf*ck of a situation around, and organized everything.
i had went through every thread on the official forums and anywhere else, then compiled them all, sorted them
based on type, and basically built a website,
this thread here:
on I44 forums was where the idea started as I was going to compile I44 and Iron front, all WW2 stuff,
lastly theres also a thread here:
forum.iron-front.com/showthread.php?1420-Mission-RepositoryThats a rough idea of the stuff thats been going on in the past year or so since the forum here has been established.
IF Fan forums here are like the official forums as the official forums----> forum.iron-front.com/forum.php are not active anymore.
Hope that helps answer some questions.
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Updating this a little (6/15/2015)
IFA3 (Iron Front in Arma3) is still being worked on since its release last year, currently there is a small team working
on the Arma3 version patches, the patches have gone from v1.07 to v1.13 and another patch is on the way
with new fixes, updates, and I believe more content.
IFA2 (Iron front in Arma2CO) is not being updated anymore by any team, but missions are still being made, and updated for it,
but most efforts have moved towards the Arma3 version of Iron front (IFA3).
For those reading this post if your interested in getting either IFA2 or IFA3 setup for yourself then go here:
for IFA2 info: ironfront.forumchitchat.com/?forum=382477
for IFA3 info: ironfront.forumchitchat.com/post/iron-front-in-arm3-lite-preview-versions-8114248?trail=15
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Any questions you may have review those threads contained and post your reply there I will answer as soon as I can
or direct you to where you need to go if needed.
